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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Massachusetts Mom Searches "Ways to Kill," Strangles Her 3 Tots Dead With Exercise Bands

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Lindsay Clancy’s third child is born, her recovery seems to be different.

The 32-year-old reaches out to her parents and her in-laws to help her manage the children and things around the home. Her husband, Patrick Clancy sets up a home office in the basement to work remotely, so he can be on hand to help. When Lindsay starts to have thoughts of suicide, and worse, hurting the children, she checks herself into the McLean Psychiatric Hospital,

Five days after checking into a psychiatric hospital Lindsay Clancy is reportedly told she doesn't have postpartum depression. Husband Patrick Clancy tells friends that after her hospital stay, Lindsay seems to be getting better. She is sleeping better, interacting with friends and family, and going out in public without any difficulty. When Patrick Clancy asks his wife if she is having any suicidal thoughts, Lindsay Clancy says "No."

Later on in the year, with his wife having been prescribed at least 13 different medications, Patrick Clancy texts a friend saying he’s concerned that Lindsey has been prescribed too many medications. Patrick allegedly told friends that he worried she was suffering “the worst side effects possible” from one of her prescriptions. He says he thinks she is going through benzodiazepine withdrawal.

On a Tuesday afternoon Lindsay Clancy sends a text to her husband to pick up takeout. As Patrick Clancy leaves to pick up dinner, Lindsay sends him a text to stop off by the drugstore and pick up some medicine for the children.

Patrick Clancy stops by the drug store to pick up the medication but gets confused as to exactly which medicine to buy. He calls Lindsay Clancy on the phone, but she doesn't answer. She calls back a minute later.

Patrick says she sounded like she was in the middle of something. Lindsay answers his question about the medication and Patrick picks it up and heads to the 3V to get their dinner. When Patrick Clancy comes home, he’s met with silence.

He finds his wife in the backyard. She had jumped out of a second-floor window after slitting her wrists. The children are in the basement, strangled, an exercise band still wound around their necks.

Investigators revealed in court papers that Lindsay Clancy allegedly researched "ways to kill" before the deaths of her three children. Clancy is in a hospital ward, paralyzed after her second-floor fall, and faces three counts each of murder and strangulation.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • Darryl Cohen – Former Assistant District Attorney (Fulton County, Georgia) Former Assistant State Attorney (Florida), and Defense Attorney: Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC; Facebook: “Darryl B Cohen;” Twitter: @DarrylBCohen
  • Dr. Angela Arnold – Psychiatrist, Atlanta, GA; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted “My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022”
  • Brian T. Gill - Former 30-year Boston Police Detective, Owner of BTG Investigations in Hanover Massachusetts; FB: BTG Investigations, LinkedIn: Brian T Gill
  • Dr. Michelle Dupre– Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & “Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide”, Ret. Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s Department
  • Julie Lewis - President & CEO, Digital Mountain, Inc.
  • Flint McColgan - Boston Herald Reporter; Twitter/X: @FlintMcColgan

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Crime stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous young mom strangles all three children dead five, and just seven months.

0:27.6

Three children ages five, three and just seven months?

0:33.6

How?

0:37.2

Why?

0:38.8

I'm Nancy Grace.

0:39.8

This is Crime Stories.

0:41.3

Thank you for being with us here at crime stories and Series XM 111.

0:45.8

I want answers.

0:47.3

I want the right thing.

0:48.3

So let's start at the beginning.

0:52.4

Listen, the defendant took her five-year-old daughter core to the pediatricians for an

0:56.5

appointment. She interacted with a receptionist, nursing staff, and a doctor.

1:01.6

There were apparently no issues with the defendant's demeanor or behavior

1:06.4

as she completed the appointment and was allowed to leave with KOR

1:09.8

without any issues or concerns.

1:12.0

When she returned home, she went outside with Corr and a three-year-old son Dawson to play in the snow. They built a snowman. The defendant sent photos to her mother and to the defendant,

1:23.2

straight that to her husband.

1:25.0

She texted with them.

1:26.5

Nothing in the text was out of the ordinary

1:28.6

or any sign of any distress or trouble.

1:30.9

Okay.

1:32.3

She went to the doctor, the pediatrician.

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